Re:AltStore – An alternative app store for non-jailbroken iO...
by judge2020 on Sunday June 20, 2021 @10:21AM
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Sure, but more people are happy paying after the fact (in the case of oculus, via ads and 30% of sales going to FB) that I’m highly doubtful that they would make the same overall profit if they did sell it for the actual price they want without getting any money on the backend, especially if that backend money never stops even 10 years after the initial purchase.
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Re:AltStore – An alternative app store for non-jailbroken iO...
by mthoms on Sunday June 20, 2021 @11:10AM
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They aren’t somehow entitled to make “the same overall profit”. You seem to think they are.
It’s additional revenue. The phone itself is already hugely profitable. In fact, the original business model didn’t include App Store revenue at all, and Apple were perfectly happy with that.